"We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Walk your talk and no one will be in doubt of where you stand." - Howard Lyman

"The World is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-Albert Einstein

"Religion is excellent stuff to keep the common people quiet." --Napoleon Bonaparte.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922

From beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The soullessness of men.
~M. Frida Hartley

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham

"We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead" -AIC